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A meta-epistemological framework that treats knowledge as emergent from complex, adaptive processes—not a static set of justified beliefs. It views inquiry as a dynamical system: scientists explore landscapes of hypotheses, feedback loops (peer review) constrain paths, and consensus emerges from interactions, not just evidence. The theory incorporates social epistemology, complexity science, and evolutionary epistemology. It explains paradigm shifts as bifurcations, research fronts as attractors, and scientific revolutions as phase transitions. It rejects foundationalism and coherentism in favor of an ecological model: knowledge adapts to its niche.
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